Li Zong took the opportunity to express his desire to go to the Supervisory Council.

The Queen Mother looked at him and sneered: "Can you come up with some reliable ideas?"

Li Zong blushed and retreated, then heard the Queen Mother's wanton laughter coming from the hall.

Qin Yurou scolded him for being stupid and asked why he wanted to go to the Supervisory Office, which was a place that supervised all officials. He had the nerve to squeeze in there with all his problems.

Li Zong was angry, with resentment between his eyebrows: "Qin Yurou, I am your husband, not your son. Instead of letting others stare at me, why can't I stare at others? What's so great about the Supervisory Office? I don't believe it."

Qin Yurou was so angry that she kept shaking her head: "What's so great about it? Just look at the memorial on the emperor's desk and you will know. If you want to rise to the top, you have to use your own means, not force your way. Be careful not to fall to your death."

"Qin Yurou, you've gone too far. Why are you so mean now? Is this still the Qin Yurou I know?"

"Are you the Li Zong I know? The modest gentleman, gentle as jade?"

Li Zong knew that he couldn't win the argument with Qin Yurou, so he turned and went to the study.

He had not stayed in the academy for an hour when he sneaked back because he needed Qin Yurou's help with something the empress dowager had assigned him, and he did not dare to offend the empress dowager.

It took some effort to coax Qin Yurou and then hand the list to her.

Qin Yurou wanted to scold him the moment she saw the list, but he blocked her mouth. Li Zong's efforts to please her left her powerless to refute him, and she had no time to think.

In the morning, Li Zong got up and went to court. Qin Yurou remembered the list in her daze. She woke up suddenly, looked at the list carefully and fell into deep thought.

She got up and decided to go to Ren's shop. Finally, she selected a few shops and asked them to send the goods to her silk shop for unified shipment. The purpose of doing this was also to ensure quality.

Ye Youlan knew about Qin Yurou's private operations, but it didn't matter, it was all business anyway.

Ye Youlan was eating teppanyaki at home when she suddenly thought that she should send one to each of Chen Xiaoling's family. So she asked someone to go to Ding's iron shop and order four more iron plates to send to each of their families. Of course, the money was paid in advance.

Jinbao invited Zhao Yicheng and Ding Xiaoshan to his home for teppanyaki.

"Is it the same as the iron plate at the entrance of the Ten-Cent Shop?"

"Same, they taste really good. My favorites are fried tofu and fried rice noodles."

Ding Yishan said happily: "These iron plates were all made by my father."

Zhao Yicheng couldn't wait and said he wanted to eat barbecue.

When they arrived at the Jin Mansion, Aunt Chen asked Tian why he brought his friends home so late?

Jinbao said happily: "Bring them to eat teppanyaki."

Aunt Chen looked disgusted: "What's so delicious about that? It looks dirty."

Jinbao asked his mother to stop talking and said he wanted to take his friend to the kitchen.

"Your father is waiting for you to eat!"

"I'll eat some teppanyaki first and then go over."

So the three of them came to the Jin family's kitchen. The cook was busy preparing dinner. Jin Bao put five hundred coins on the stove. The cook immediately asked the maid to put the iron plate on the stove and asked them what they wanted to eat.

"Fried rice with egg, fried rice noodles, grilled meat, fried tofu, grilled eggplant." Jinbao listed a lot in one breath.

Ding Xiaoshan and Zhao Yicheng were about to drool.

When it was time for dinner, Master Jin saw that Jin Bao had not yet arrived, so he asked Aunt Chen, "Didn't you say Jin Bao is back? Where is he?"

"How about eating teppanyaki in the kitchen with friends?"

"What's teppanyaki?"

Ruoyun explained with a smile, "It's an iron plate that Youlan sent. It can be used as a wok. Yesterday, I tried making some barbecue and fried rice. Jinbao loved it. He brought his friends home today, probably to show off."

Hearing about Youlan, Lord Jin looked at his daughter and then at Li Chuang: "I heard Youlan is pregnant. Shouldn't you guys hurry up too? You got married earlier than her."

Li Chuang nodded: "Try hard, try hard."

After the meal, Aunt Chen asked Ruoyun in a flattering manner if she wanted to give her son-in-law some medicine.

Ruoyun got anxious when she heard this: "You can't give my father medicine. He's old and can't stand it."

Aunt Chen looked disgusted and said, "What are you talking about? The medicine I'm talking about is a tonic, not that kind of medicine."

Ruoyun was relieved and said with a smile, "Thank you, Auntie. I don't think my husband will need it."

After Zhao Yicheng had eaten and drunk his fill, he asked Ding Xiaoshan how much the iron plate cost, as he also wanted to buy one to take home.

"A bigger one is one ounce and a half. If you want it, I'll ask my dad to make you a smaller one and charge you the cost price."

Zhao Yicheng said, "Okay, I'll go home and get some together."

Li Chuang wanted to send Zhao Yicheng and Ding Xiaoshan home.

"No, our house is very close to here."

Li Chuang was worried, so he asked a servant to send the two away.

As a result, someone knocked on the door in the middle of the night. It was Mrs. Zhao and Ding Xiaoshan’s mother, saying that the child had not returned home yet.

Li Chuang asked someone to find the servant, but someone came and said that the servant had not returned either.

Li Chuang asked them to look somewhere else quickly, and he went to the City Patrol Office to ask someone to help find the child.

After searching all night, they found a person lying at the door of a dilapidated house in a small alley. The owner got up in the morning and opened the door to see him. He was so scared that he screamed, waking up many people.

"Whose servant is this?"

"Why are you lying here?"

Someone was brave enough to go forward and feel the man's breath. Finding that the man was still alive, he pushed him and pinched his philtrum, and the servant woke up in a daze.

"Why am I here?"

"Which house are you from?"

"Jin Mansion." The servant struggled to get up, but he was too weak to do so. So a kind-hearted person helped him and sent him to Jin Mansion.

Ruoyun asked someone to quickly call her son-in-law, and Li Chuang came back hurriedly, sweating profusely.

"How come the child you sent yesterday is lost?"

The servant had a headache: "I don't know. I was walking and my eyes went dark, and when I woke up it was daylight."

Li Chuang went out to look for people again. In addition to the City Patrol, he also asked Jingzhao Prefecture for help.

Xiaomei went to the store to inspect in the morning and heard that people all over the city were looking for two missing children. She asked curiously whose children they were.

The waiter told her that they were two children from Qingshan Academy, one named Zhao Yicheng and the other named Ding Xiaoshan.

Xiaomei panicked and ran towards the palace. Before she even stepped into the courtyard of Tingyuxuan, she was already shouting, "Oh no! Something happened."

Frightened by the Seventh Prince's sharp gaze, she quickly stood there respectfully.

The Seventh Prince asked, "What's the matter?"

"Zhao Yicheng and Ding Xiaoshan are missing."

The Seventh Prince frowned slightly and said, "The princess hasn't woken up yet. I'll go check on her. Don't let her know."

Xiaomei whispered, "Yes."

When the Seventh Prince went out, Xiaomei was so scared that she didn't dare to go near the princess's room. She just tiptoed outside and told Dingxiang not to tell the princess what happened outside.

Ding Xiang was curious: "What happened outside?"

"Two children are missing."

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